The economy is tipping into a deflationary crisis with a worsening debt crunch, falling wages and prices, and increasing reliance of fraudulent economic data. The word ‘involution’ or neijuan describes ever increasing inputs that produce no improvements. Think of trying to run up a down escalator. This term has gained mass usage in China since […]
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Socialist Action (ISA in Hong Kong) reporters In Hong Kong, the government’s white terror against political activity, the media, opposition parties and democratic rights takes new leaps every day. Apple Daily’s billionaire owner Jimmy Lai Chee-Ying was arrested under the national security law last year. He is one of 114 people so far charged under […]
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Workers need to act: build unions / epidemic action committees in every workplace The coronavirus has killed 563 people so far (February 6). On January 22, the Chinese regime stated there were 548 confirmed cases, by February 5 it had risen to over 28,000 cases. Entire cities in china are locked down with not transport […]
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Mass struggle must maximize the effect of these historic election results – make workers’ struggle the core and a turn to mainland masses The District Council elections held on Sunday 24 November were a huge victory for the anti-authoritarian protest movement which began in June. Without the mass protests, which have raged continuously for almost […]
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This is the text of a leaflet issued by Socialist Action (ISA in Hong Kong). Demonstrations should not require police approval – Export the Hong Kong revolution to China! After almost four months of this historic mass struggle, Hong Kong has become a city under police rule. The CCP (so-called ‘Communist’) dictatorship fears that the […]
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Sacked after participating in September general strike Socialist Action Hong Kong Hong Kong is facing wave of corporate ‘white terror’ – dismissals, spying and intimidation – against workers and trade unionists that voice support for the mass protest movement. Nathan Leung Lai Pong, a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) and an outsourced worker at […]
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The following is the text of a leaflet issued by Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong) for the coming days of mass protests: Reject fake compromise! Beware of emergency laws! Spreading the revolution to China is essential for success! Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced her amendments to the extradition law, which triggered […]
Continue ReadingThe massive August 20 demonstration called at just five days’ notice showed the depths of the popular backlash against the jailing of 16 young activists On August 20, up to 140,000 poured onto Hong Kong’s streets in the biggest anti-government protest since the 2014 Umbrella Movement. This incredible demonstration, protesting the imprisonment of 16 young […]
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The decision by Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung on July 14 to expel four legislators from the Legislative Council (Legco), including veteran democracy campaigner, ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung, is a massive blow against the democracy struggle in Hong Kong and, by extension, also in China. This was nothing short of a coup by the right-wing authoritarian […]
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